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US fossil fuel companies spent $2 billion to Make America Dirty Again—and won

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US energy providers love to spread horror stories of what it would cost to actually clean up America’s power supply and slow global warming. But they certainly don’t mind spending money when it comes to keeping American covered in soot, coal ash, mercury

US energy providers love to spread horror stories of what it would cost to actually clean up America’s power supply and slow global warming. But they certainly don’t mind spending money when it comes to keeping American covered in soot, coal ash, mercury, and all the other byproducts of a dirty energy industry. As a new study shows, the fossil fuel industry has spent over $2 billion fighting to make sure that America stays dirty.
That expenditure, coming in just the period since 2000, means that over 10 times as much was spent by fossil fuel companies lobbying Congress to resist making any changes to address climate change than by all science, health and environmental groups pressing to take action.
Despite the introduction of several major bills to limit carbon emissions in the USA, none of them have been passed.
None of them have passed not because there wasn’t evidence to back their actions, or popular support for addressing the issue. As the paper shows, legislators have tended to make a simple equation: More lobbying means a higher level of interest. And fossil fuel companies have poured money into making sure that their products can be burned with increasingly fewer restrictions. Even as scientific consensus was developing and the world waking up to the size of the threat, oil, gas, and coal companies worked diligently to make sure that no substantial action would be taken.
And that’s true even of companies that were publicly mouthing belief in climate change, even as they were putting down their dollars to fight it. Companies didn’t “come to the table” to negotiate with environmental groups as a means of finding the best way to deal with global warming. They didn’t sit down to hear what those groups had to say. They came to those meetings for the same purpose that they lobbied Congress: To make sure nothing happened.
Their apparent “support” for climate change, was just a feint designed to make the public think that these companies had at last agreed to take action. When they were really just sitting to the same table with environmental groups to weaken and slow reaction under the guise of being reasonable. Read more

Roger Vivier Releases Cat Duet Film for the Holiday Season Starring Catherine Deneuve

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Coinciding with the launch of its Tres Vivier styles for the Holiday Season, is the launch of Roger Vivier’s film starring legendary French actress Catherine Deneuve and other colorful characters. Inspired by Rossini's famous performance piece “Duet for T

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Construction breaks ground on Monroe Blocks, Schmidt Hammer Lassen’s first US project. A mixed-use development featuring modern office space, residential units, restaurants, retail, and outdoor public areas, the project is coming up on the northeast corner

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The Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD) has announced the six winners of the 2019 Richard Rogers Fellowship. The 2019 fellows were chosen from nearly 140 applicants from around the world. The fellows have won a three-and-a-half-month residency at the Wimb

Laguna Seca keeps place on WSBK calendar after all

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Flux raises $7.5M Series A to bring its digital receipts platform to more banks and merchants

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Flux, the London fintech that has built a technology platform for banks and merchants to power itemised digital receipts and a lot more, has raised $7.5 million in Series A funding. The round is led by VC firm e.ventures (which has previously backed the like

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Ehrlacher completes Cyan Racing's 2019 WTCR line-up

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Audi announces unchanged 2019 DTM line-up

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PixelMe raises $1.3 million for its retargeting URL shortener

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With trust destroyed, Facebook is haunted by old data deals

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SoftBank Corp shares drop 14% on their first day of trading, but it’s still one of the largest IPOs ever

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SoftBank Corp’s initial public offering today started with a bang before trailing off into a whimper, with the stock falling 14.5 percent during its first day of trading on the Tokyo Stock Exchange. The company is the mobile unit of conglomerate SoftBank Gr

Tordoff makes Honda switch for 2019 BTCC season

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Tordoff took a year out of the BTCC in 2017 to contest the British GT Championship, but returned to tin-tops this season and drove a Motorbase Performance Ford Focus RS. He took a victory at Silverstone on his way to 11th in the overall standings. AmD acquire

US teams to play in European snow volleyball tour

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When USA Volleyball asked four-time Olympian Lloy Ball to put together a team for a snow volleyball tournament in Moscow this week, the 2008 gold medalist was eager to accept. Never mind that he's never played on the snow before. Or that, at 46, he's not a li

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Yemeni mom wins fight to fly to US to give dying son kiss

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All Shaima Swileh wants is to give her son one more kiss before he dies. The Yemeni woman is about to get her wish after winning her fight for a waiver from the Trump administration's travel ban so she can fly to California where her 2-year-old son is on lif

“Jewelry World Asia” to Set the Stage of Fine Jewelry in Singapore

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Rare diamonds, precious gems, and unique jewelry resembling artworks — these are the carefully selected, exquisite pieces shown at the first Jewelry World Asia (JWA). It’s the first regional show where only the best jewelry boutiques, designers, and retai